Educator and Make: author Gever Tulley helps kids build their own drill-powered go-karts at his Tinkering School in Montara, Calif., using small welded frames, bike parts, and cheap corded drills. We asked him to build a version for Make:, but we wanted it to be large and powerful enough to carry an adult driver, and we wanted […]
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While the user’s away, the malware will play. Keep your computer out of online mischief, when you’re not using it, by building this simple, foolproof, easy-bake hardware kill switch.
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Make a cheap, high-tech nozzle to eliminate turbulence and create incredible water effects.
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Make a hot/cold food smoker from a 55-gallon steel drum.
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Fling your Rocket Glider or other toy aircraft 150 feet into the sky!
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Build a Notification Alert Generator that pesters you to do your chores.
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When I was younger, I spent hours perusing Bill Beaty’s electrostatics web pages. At the time, I didn’t achieve any real successes trying to build his high-voltage contraptions, and so my interest waned. Years later, I saw someone online use a soda can as a collector for their Van de Graaff generator, and all my […]
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